1860 Priesthood ban on Video (Transcript)
Welcome to the Mormon Guru Podcast Today's question: Why did the church place a ban on African Americans from holding the priesthood in the late 18th century? Slide 3: Whether in or out of the church, We must condemn racism where ever it happens. Slide 4: With that in mind let’s go back to Europe & America in the 1800s Slide 5: In London 1807, The Slave Bible was published, The Slave Bible was used as missionary tool to teach Slaves to learn to read and convert to Christianity. The preaching on the curse of Ham can be traced to the early 1800s across Christian denominations. For more visit the Bible Museum in Washington DC https://www.museumofthebible.org/exhibits/slave-bible Fast forward to September 1832, a white Church member named Ezekiel Roberts baptized Elijah Able in Ohio, a northern state where blacks and whites interacted somewhat freely. Elijah Ables, would be then called as the first African American priesthood holder by Joseph Smith to be a Seventy. https://...